The proliferation of expert witnesses is often considered to be "hired guns" employed to shoot holes in the other side’s testimony
专家证人经常被认为是用来攻击对方证词的“职业枪支”
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Recruiting is a full contact sport and sometimes you need a hired gun to help.
招聘是一项竞争激烈的运动，有时你需要专业人士来帮忙。
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Now, I’m sorry that your illustrious group have been reduced to hired guns.
在，我很抱歉你杰出的组织遭受损失。
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There are hundreds of hired guns now working on the energy issues.
现在在能源问题上的说客估计有数百个之多。
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These hired guns argue, often correctly, that consumers can, with sufficient diligence, obtain all the information they need.
那些被收买的专家辩称，只要足够用心，消费者就能够获得所有所需信息——这个说法通常没错。
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Short on funds, he answered a call for hired guns needed to protect a small farming community from speeder-riding brigands.
由于缺钱，他应征加入一支民兵队。这支民兵队负责保卫一个小村社免遭飞车强盗的侵害。
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英语成语:hired gun
1. A person who is hired to kill someone.
机译:1.受雇杀人的人。
Don’t worry about that snitch. We’ve sent a couple of hired guns around to his house, so he won’t be a problem for us much longer.
机译:别担心那个告密者。我们已经派了几把雇来的枪到他家附近，这样他就不会再成为我们的麻烦了。
2. Not available to be used by someone else in exchange for money. Our military is not and never will be for hire by a foreign power.
机译:1.不可供他人使用以换取金钱。我们的军队现在不是也永远不会受雇于外国势力。
Sorry, but the digital assets I’ve created are not for hire.
机译:对不起，我创建的数字资产不是供雇佣的。
3. To allow someone to use, employ, or access someone or something, in exchange for money. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "hire" and "out." If we owned a second house, we could hire it out when we’re not there.
My niece watches my kids all the time, so I’ve started hiring her out as a babysitter to other moms in the neighborhood.
机译:我的侄女一直看着我的孩子，所以我开始雇她给附近的其他妈妈当保姆。
4. A person employed to provide armed protection for or fight on behalf of someone. The rebels brought in a few hired guns to help bolster their meager attack.
Things have become so violent in the town that even the mayor has taken on some hired guns to keep him safe.
机译:镇上的情况变得如此暴力，甚至市长也雇佣了一些枪支来保护他的安全。
5. Of a taxi, not available to pick up new customers.
机译:2.出租车，不可接新客户。
A: "Excuse me, could you take us to the airport, please?" B: "Sorry, I’m not for hire. Just waiting to pick up a customer."
机译:A： “对不起，请你带我们去机场好吗？”B：“对不起，我不是来应聘的。只是等着接客人。”
6. To seek employment.
机译:2.找工作。
Now that you have your degree, you can hire out as an accountant.
机译:既然你有了学位，你就可以雇一名会计师了。
7. A person who is especially skilled at attaining power for others, such as a lobbyist or politician.
机译:3.特别善于为他人获取权力的人，如说客或政治家。
The corporation has sent their best hired gun to convince the senator to vote against the environmental regulation bill.
机译:该公司派出了他们雇佣的最佳人选来说服参议员投票反对环境监管法案。
8. A person hired to resolve difficult or complex problems or disputes, especially in business or law.
机译:4.被雇来解决困难或复杂的问题或纠纷的人，尤指在商业或法律方面。
Because of the intricacy of the legislation, the company brought in a hired gun to ensure the merger deal didn’t hit any legal snags.
机译:由于立法的复杂性，该公司聘请了一名律师，以确保合并交易不会遇到任何法律障碍。
9.A girl or woman is hired specifically to work on or help with something. Although often associated with farm work, the phrase can be used more broadly. I need a hired girl to help with the cows.
With a few more hired men, I think we could get this job done by the end of the week.
机译:如果再雇佣几个人，我想我们可以在本周末完成这项工作。
10.A man who is hired specifically to work on or help with something. Although often associated with farm work, the phrase can be used more broadly. I need a hired man to help with the cows.
英语成语:hired gun
Don’t worry about that snitch. We’ve sent a couple of hired guns around to his house, so he won’t be a problem for us much longer.
